Magbuhat v. Kovarik’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Martinmaas v. Engelmann (2000), Wood v. Groh (2000)
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cunningham v. Yankton Clinic, P. A. · Lytle v. Morgan · Block v. McVay · Shamburger v. Behrens · Durham v. Ciba-Geigy Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is designed to compel production of evidence and to promote, rather than stifle, the truth finding process.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rule does not exclude the opinions and conclusions of lay witnesses on subjects which are within the common knowledge and comprehension of persons possessed of ordinary education, experience and opportunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a physician brings to his patient care, skill and knowledge, he is not liable to him for damages resulting from a bonafide error judgment of which he may be guilty. The law requires a physician to base any professional decision he may make on skill and careful study and consideration of the case. But when the decision depends on an exercise of judgment, the law requires only that the judgment be bonafide. A physician is not an insurer of the correctness of his judgment, especially is this true in cases of doubt or where competent medical authority is divided, and the physician in question follows a course of treatment advocated by a substantial number of competent physicians in good standing in his community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vogt v. Billion
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.